10-10-10listed

# 10-10-10 ## Overview Faced with a non-trivial decision, ask three questions: How will I feel in **10 minutes**? In **10 months**? In **10 years**? The three horizons are spaced an order of magnitude apart to surface the systematic bias toward the immediate — hyperbolic discounting — that makes decisions under stress go wrong. Coined by Suzy Welch (2009); the 10-year horizon is operationally identical to Jeff Bezos's regret-minimization framework (1994). Composes with [`regret-minimization`](../regret-minimization/SKILL.md), [`second-order-thinking`](../second-order-thinking/SKILL.md), [`first-principles`](../first-principles/SKILL.md), and [`metacognition`](../metacognition/SKILL.md). ## When to Use - A personal life decision is being made under emotional pressure - A career or professional choice has long-term consequences that current anxiety is obscuring - A relationship decision (start, deepen, end) requires weighing what feels acute vs what will matter - A high-stakes business call is being made by someone who would benefit from a forced retrospect - An impulsive action is about to be taken that would feel embarrassing later - A hard conversation is being deferred because it's uncomfortable now - Someone says "10-10-10," "regret minimization," "what would future me say," "Suzy Welch," "Bezos framework," "long-term perspective" **Not when:** the decision genuinely has no medium- or long-term consequences (which lunch to order); the 10-10-10 frame produces three id